All (but one) of the national engineering labs are joint ventures. Owned by DoE, operated/managed by some university. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Stat

All (but one) of the national engineering labs are joint ventures. Owned by DoE, operated/managed by some university. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Energy_national_laboratories https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_En... I used to work at NREL.